Making

Whenever we start making a new instrument, we feel an irrepressible surge of energy – even after these many years of professional experience. We start designing the forms, getting a feel for the special characteristics of the model and the wood we have chosen, planning the instrument’s inner architecture, then proceeding to shape the arching, the f-holes, the scroll and the edges, all the way through to the ground coating and the varnish – those elements that give the instrument its shining color, luminescence and final splendor.

Thus, over the past twenty-five years, we have shaped more than seventy new masterpieces: violins, violas and cellos, all currently being played by professional musicians as well as discerning amateurs in Germany and abroad.

On the next pages we would like to present some of the instruments we have made up to this point: